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Is there anybody out there who lived at or visited the village of Glanwydden, or was a pupil of the local county council school during the period 1937 to 1945?, I attended the local school between 1937 and ...Read more

A memory of Glanwydden in 1940 by Elwyn Hughes

In 1954 Roundway was the site of the Royal Army Pay Corps Training Centre. Nothing now remains of this except a plaque erected by the local council to commemorate the fact that thousands of young men conscripted for ...Read more

A memory of Roundway in 1954 by John Pettitt

My family moved to 121 Midland Road during the winter of 1946 as my father worked in a local paint factory till 1948. There was a huge monkey puzzle tree in the front garden. I was 7 and my sister was ...Read more

A memory of Wellingborough in 1947 by Angela Diamond

I lived in Ilford in 1963. My father had won a scholarship to study chest disease in London, so he and Mom packed us up and carted us off to England. Ilford offered the cheapest acceptable lodgings close to London for ...Read more

A memory of Ilford in 1963 by Glenna Jenkins

I was 2 or 3 months old in 1954 when the family moved from Wheatley Hill into a newly built council house on Kirkstone Road at the Horden end. My earliest memory is of sitting on the door step waiting for my brother ...Read more

A memory of Peterlee by Paul Dunn

In about 1972 we as a family moved into West Challow, although with being at a young age I hated it, since moving from Wantage and my friends this it seemed was in the middle of nowhere. I used to cycle most days to Icknield, ...Read more

A memory of West Challow by Mark Clarke

I grew up at the rectory in Withyham, my father Peter was Rector of Withyham and Blackham from1953 to 1986. I was the eldest of eight children. I have many fond memories of my life in Withyham and also some sad ones. My father's ashes ...Read more

A memory of Withyham in 1953 by Patrick Scott

This memory of 1961, and me and me pal Wes Coulthard started work at the Delta Rolling Mills (this was over Scotswood Bridge towards Blaydon, left along the river by the Skiff Inn). It was hard work but the dosh was better than other ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1961 by Jimmy Burrows

My name is Kevin Mears, I lived in Wickford from my birth in 1958 until I got married in 1980. I shall describe my memories of Wickford as a couple of walks around the Wickford area. My first ...Read more

A memory of Wickford by Kevin Mears

When Seaham Hall was used as a T B hospital this extension was built at the side, we used to walk through the hall grounds on our way to the beach from New Seaham and the French Windows were always open and the beds wheeled outside even ...Read more

A memory of Seaham by Marion Johnson